Assessing sustainability performance of high-tech firms through a hybrid approach

Industrial Management and Data Systems

Volumn 119, Issue 8, 2019, Pages 1581-1607

  Cui, Li ^a,b   Zhai, Mengru ^a   Dai, Jing ^c   Liu, Yang ^d   Zhang, Pan ^b  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b China Business Executives Academy   (China)

^c University of Nottingham   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assessment; High tech firms; Sustainability performance

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; ECONOMICS; EMISSION CONTROL; INVESTMENTS; LINGUISTICS; PLANNING;

ASSESSMENT; CORPORATE-SUSTAINABILITY; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; ENERGY CONSERVATION AND EMISSION REDUCTIONS; HIGH-TECH FIRMS; QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE RESEARCHES; SCIENTIFIC RATIONALITIES; SUSTAINABILITY PERFORMANCE;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 85071532305     PISSN: 02635577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/IMDS-02-2019-0066     Document Type: Article

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